Falling

With the autumn weather the skies become very wild.  I couldn't snap any lightning shots last night because my cameras aren't that good.  But wow.  The layers of clouds add in the strong winds create some crazy fun shots. 

Naturally that increases the likely chances of 'unsettled weather patterns' aka hurricanes.  Yet to experience anything but a tropical storm/depression.  I keep hearing the stories and that writer bit of me goes 'goodie'  IknowIknow ...bad me.  But I've been around tons of natural disaster sorts of weather and that scientific side pushes up and wonders. 

Life has not settled down much.  And from all signs it won't anytime soon given the current folks running the world as I know it.  My family has been in and out of hospitals lately and as of last night were all out. 

One of my 'puppies' passed away last Thursday.  Not mine per se but my brother's dog - the one that I have told many McCoy Boy stories about to friends and folks who probably didn't give a tinkers damn.  McCoy is the dog my brother got for the family then they immediately went on a vacation.  So McCoy always figured I was one of the family.  New Years Eve ten years ago or so I had a plate of cheese and crackers with some chardonnay to sip when I was talking online with my friends I had to take a minute AFK (yeah go potty) and I came back and every bit of cheese was GONE.  Now realize the desk top was high and the dog was little!  That dog launched is wire terrier body up and emptied the plate before I could discover him - he was downstairs playing stupid.  We all still laugh about that!

Other less amusing bits happening but October is a day away.  I need to start writing something dark!

Palms, Pumpkins and Pumps....my latest story on Pikers Press

http://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=5739

This was a story I started back in 2009 for NaNoWriMo.  Instead of finishing I set it aside for too much real life.  Still I found it teasing my thoughts lately so I brushed it off and began digging around and fixing the bits one ignores when writing for NaNo.

Hope you all enjoy!

September and fall in air

For whatever reason full 'super moons' always make me think of Fall.  Fall is one of my favorite times of year.  The nips of chilly air that toy with the nape of my neck like a lover - giving me that sweet taste of winter just around the corner along with the promise of changes.  I used to love raking the leaves during the autumn when I lived in Michigan.  Laced with the bittersweet knowledge that my garden was dying off leaving me with delicious offerings to be savored.  I picked some purple opal basil last night from my little pot of herbs in the front of the house.  The scent of that basil drifted on the wind and teased me.